Department of Justice federal obligations in Virginia

Justice awards tagged to Virginia

The $16,148,629,321.93 total is the USAspending aggregate for Department of Justice (agency 015) where place of performance is Virginia. It is not a count of prosecutions, prisons, or FBI cases. Those activities may generate awards that land in the table, but the facts supply only dollars and an award count of 11,854. Inferring a caseload from that count would over-read the join.

Eleven thousand eight hundred fifty-four awards is a high row count relative to many other state–agency cells in this batch. High counts usually mean the mean dollar amount is pulled down unless a few enormous awards offset them. Here the mean is about $1.36 million. That still blends grants, contracts, and other instruments if all are present in the source aggregate.

Readers sometimes want this join to double as a map of federal law-enforcement presence. The 11,854-award count will not do that work. Presence, headcount, and caseload live in other systems. $16,148,629,321.93 is the obligation field for agency 015 and Virginia place of performance, refreshed when the aggregate is rebuilt, not when a case is filed.

Agency 015 as the awarding department

Department of Justice on the agency hub is nationwide. Virginia’s $16,148,629,321.93 is the VA slice of agency 015, not a stand-in for every U.S. Attorney’s office or component. Awards coded to other states stay outside this tie. The overlay /states/va/agencies/015/ is the filtered table that corresponds to these facts.

Code 015 is stable in USAspending’s toptier list for Justice. This page does not split components. If a reader needs Bureau-level detail, that split is not in the two numbers provided here.

Virginia geography versus the capital region

Northern Virginia sits next to the District, so some Justice-related work is easy to picture on the Virginia side of the river. Picture is not data. Only awards with place-of-performance state VA enter $16,148,629,321.93. Awards tagged DC are on District pages. The join does not move dollars across the Potomac to match commuting patterns.

Virginia federal spending is the parent state table. Justice is one awarding agency there, alongside Transportation, Treasury, and others that have their own Virginia ties. Stacking this $16.15 billion with those other cells is a way to compare joins, not a way to reconstruct a state budget.

Row volume and what it does not mean

A count of 11,854 awards can include many modest assistance records. It can also include large contracts. Without a distribution, the only derived figure available is the mean of about $1.36 million. There is no median, no top-vendor list, and no fiscal year in the facts.

Obligations remain commitments. A Justice award can obligate a multi-year amount that pays out later. Reporting $16,148,629,321.93 as “spent in Virginia courts” would confuse the field with an outcome metric.

What the join refuses to claim

This pair does not rank Virginia’s crime, does not evaluate charging decisions, and does not connect obligations to campaign donations. It records that agency 015 and state VA co-occur on 11,854 awards totaling $16,148,629,321.93 in USAspending obligations.

Follow Department of Justice in Virginia for the overlay, Virginia federal spending for the state hub, Department of Justice for agency 015, and All spending ties for other intersections.

Justice awards can include grants to localities, support contracts, and other instruments in the same 11,854-row pile. This page has no award-type split, so it does not say how many rows are grants. $16,148,629,321.93 is the undifferentiated pair total. A prosecutor’s office named in news coverage is not assigned a dollar amount here.

What to open after this join

Department of Justice in Virginia is the overlay for agency 015 and state VA. Virginia federal spending is the parent geography. Department of Justice is the national 015 hub. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Those links let a reader check neighboring agencies in Virginia without treating $16,148,629,321.93 as the Commonwealth’s entire federal footprint.

Eleven thousand eight hundred fifty-four awards is a high count, which is why the mean sits near $1.36 million rather than tens of millions. High counts are still not caseloads. One grant can fund many cases; one contract can cover many sites. Place of performance VA excludes awards tagged DC even when staff work across the river. The join follows the geography field, not commuting patterns, and not campaign-finance records.

Questions

How much Department of Justice money is obligated in Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $16,148,629,321.93 in agency 015 obligations with Virginia place of performance, across 11,854 awards. That is an obligation aggregate, not an outlay total and not a count of cases.

Why are there 11,854 DOJ awards in Virginia?

The facts supply the count, not the reason. 11,854 is the number of award records in the agency 015 and Virginia aggregate. It is not a count of investigations or unique vendors.

Does this include Justice Department work in Washington, DC?

Only if the award’s place-of-performance state is Virginia. DC-tagged awards are excluded from the $16,148,629,321.93 total. Geography follows USAspending’s state field, not the metro area.

Is the average award about $1.4 million?

The mean is about $1.36 million, from $16,148,629,321.93 divided by 11,854. That is not a median and not a typical grant size.